Appendix 1: Overview of the IDA Web Site
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Summary Page
Integrated
Document Access Project—Main Menu
Integrated
Document Access Project—About this Server
Projects
Electronic and
Digital/Virtual Libraries
Gateway Services
Integrated
Databases
Interfaces
Interfaces—OPAC
to Web
Interfaces—Web
to Z39.50
Retrieval Tools
SGML Projects
Search Tools and
Indexes
Literature and
Information Resources
People and
Organisational Contacts
Examples of
Evaluations
This appendix provides an overview of the Integrated Document Access (IDA) World Wide Web site. This site provides many direct links to relevant projects and URLS to a wide range of publications. This hard copy version ‘captured’ in a point of time for the purpose of this report, is constantly undergoing revision as new projects are being developed and information sources increase.
Welcome to the IDA (Integrated Document Access) Project. This project is being conducted by the University of South Australia on behalf of the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL). Funding for the project has been provided by the Department of Employment, Education and Training (DEET) under the Evaluations and Investigations Program (EIP).
This web site is highly experimental and change will be continuous for the duration of the project. (1 November 1995 - 31 March 1996). Researchers, academics, librarians/information managers and other interested individuals are invited to regularly browse this site and comment on its changing contents.
Click here to explore the IDA project which includes links:
to the worlds most innovative resource discovery/information retrieval document delivery projects;
the best search tools and finding aids for academic use; and
an extensive bibliography of literature/information resources.
Integrated Document Access Project—Main Menu
Background to the Project
What is IDA?
Project team
Project brief
Context—Changing Information Needs
Minutes of Advisory Committee
Second Progress Report
About this web server
What’s new
The IDA Project
Integrated Document Access Projects
Search Tools and Indexes
Literature/Information Resources
People and Organisational Contacts
Participate
Comments/suggestions to Margaret.Colmer@Unisa.edu.au
IDA discussion list majordomo@online.anu.edu.au (body subscribe ida)
Integrated Document Access Project—About this Server
This server commenced operation on the 3 November 1995. It is still very much under construction.
The main menu item categories are essentially complete; however, some still need to be linked to useful resources. Those links which are provided under menu items are merely a very preliminary sample of the types of resources the IDA project is investigating. The next few weeks will see dramatic changes made to this web site. Apart from in general an increase in interesting links, other information will be added such as: critical descriptions of Integrated Document Access Projects; online forms for evaluation of projects and search tools; and annotations of relevant print and electronic literature.
It is intended that the bulk of the appropriate content will be added to this site by Christmas 1995. During the first few months of 1996 this website will be used to facilitate debate and evaluation of the information it contains. Work will take place on improving the visual appeal of the site.
The IDA project falls into two main parts. The first part of the project is to identify and describe:
finding tools/indexes used for research and teaching information with an emphasis on electronic publications;
projects that aim to integrate tools/indexes for print and electronic publications; and
projects for the document delivery of print and electronic publications.
The second part of the IDA project is to analyse the tools and projects identified as above and make recommendations in relation to their testing as models for integrated delivery of information to Australian research institutions.
Broad Based Projects
DESIRE Development of a European Service for Information on Research and Education (http://www.nic.surfnet.nl/surfnet/projects/desire/)
e-Lib(Electronic Libraries Programme) (http://ukoln.bath.ac.uk/elib/)
GILS (Government Information Locator Service) (http://www.usgs.gov/gils/)
Netfirst (http://www.oclc.org/oclc/netfirst/netfirst.htm)
Cataloguing Projects
CATRIONA (CATaloguing and Retrieval of Information Over Networks Applications) (http://www.bubl.bath.ac.uk/BUBL//catriona.html)
Intercat OCLC Internet Cataloging Project (Online Computer Library Centre) (http://www.oclc.org/oclc/man/catproj/catcall.htm)
NDIS/WORLD1(http://www.nla.gov.au/2/NDIS/)
North Carolina State University WWW Experimental Catalog (http://ncsulib4.lib.ncsu.edu/drabin/niso_forms/)
Document Delivery Projects
ARIEL (Document Delivery) (http://www-rlg.stanford.edu/ariel.html)
DALI (Document and Library Integration) (http://dallas.ucd.ie:80/~dali/)
DECOMATE (DElivery of COpyright MAterial to End users) (http://www.lse.ac.uk/decomate/)
CSIR Document Delivery Services (http://africa.cis.co.za:81//csir/info/dds/des-dds3.html)
EBSCO document delivery (http://www.ebscodoc.com/)
EDDIS (Electronic Document Delivery: The Integrated Solution) (http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/library/news.d/eddis.htm)
FastDoc (http://www.oclc.org/oclc/press/950303.htm)
FIDDO (Focused Investigation of Document Delivery Options) (http://www.lut.ac.uk/departments/dils/research/fiddo/fiddo.html)
JEDDS (Joint Electronic Document Delivery Software Project) (http://www.gu.edu.au/alib/iii/docdel/jeddshom.htm)
REDD (Regional Electronic Document Delivery) (http://130.102.42.183/reddlook/redd.htm)
TULIP (http://www.elsevier.nl/info/projects/tulip.htm)
UnCover(NISS description) (telnet)
WebDOC (http://www.pica.nl/docs/en/webdoc/webproj.html)
Electronic and Digital/Virtual Libraries
IBM Digital Library (http://www.software.ibm.com/is/dig-lib/)
LC Digital Library Collections (http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/digital.html)
Lund University Electronic Library (http://www.ub2.lu.se/)
MDHI (Michigan Digital Historical Initiative in the Health Sciences) (http://http2.sils.umich.edu/HCHS/)
NEEDS Home Page (http://bishop.berkeley.edu/)
United States NSA/ARPA/NASA funded Digital Libraries* (http://www.ida.unisa.edu.au/diglib.html)
The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: subject catalog (NISS description)
(http://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Overview.html)Electronic Library Information Service (ELISA) (http://info.anu.edu.au/elisa.html)
Queensland Department of Education Virtual Library (http://cooroomba.client.uq.edu.au/)
Electronic Publishing Projects/Services Electronic publishing projects tend to fall somewhat outside of the scope of the Integrated Document Access project as they are not directly concerned with integrating print and electronic information sources. Rather electronic publishing projects focus on either presenting an exclusively electronic publication or providing an electronic mirror (or parallel) version of an existing print publication.
In general at this stage the most useful feature of electronic publications for the purposes of the IDA project is the access to full text information that is provided. Hence only the links to a selection of electronic publications and electronic publishing projects are provided on this web server:
ANU Listing of Electronic Journals (http://info.anu.edu.au/elisa/elibrary/ej.html)
Educational Publications (http://www.gu.edu.au/aeres/pub/pub.html)
Electronic Newsstand (http://www.enews.com/)
Newslink
OCLC Electronic Journals Online (http://www.ref.oclc.org:2000/html/ejo_svce.htm)
Project Muse (http://muse.jhu.edu/)
Register of Asian and Pacific Studies Electronic Journals (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/AsianPages/AsianE-Journals.html)
Register of Social Science Electronic Journals (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/CoombswebPages/EJrnls-Register.html)
Worldwide Newspapers Online (http://www.intercom.com.au/intercom/newsprs/index.htm)
BIDS (Bath Information and Data Services) (NISS description) (http://www.bids.ac.uk/)
BUBL (Bulletin Board for Libraries) (NISS description) (http://www.bubl.bath.ac.uk/BUBL/home.html)
CAIN: Conflict Archive on the INternet (http://www.ulst.ac.uk/cain/index.htm)
GABRIEL (Gateway to Europe’s National Libraries) (NISS description) (http://portico.bl.uk/gabriel/en/welcome.html)
HUMBUL gateway - International Resources in the Humanities (http://info.ox.ac.uk/departments/humanities/international.html)
IHR-INFO Institute of Historical Research
Internet Sleuth (http://www.intbc.com/sleuth/)
LIRN (Library Information Retrieval and enquiry Network) (http://sun7.iihe.ac.be/index_uk.html)
Medical Matrix (http://www.kumc.edu/mmatrix/)
OMNI (Organising Medical Networked Information) (http://omni.nott.ac.uk/)
ROADS (Resource Organisation and Discovery in Subject-based services) (http://ukoln.bath.ac.uk/roads/)
SOSIG (Social Science Information Gateway) (http://www.esrc.bris.ac.uk/)
UNILINC (Login: unilinc)
OhioLINK (http://www.cwru.edu/Ohiolink/ohiolink.html)
BabyOIL (http://www.dstc.edu.au/projects/babyOIL/babyOIL.html)
All-in-One Search (http://www.albany.net/allinone/)
American Chemical Society (http://www.acs.org/)
e-math (American Mathematical Society) (NISS description) (http://www.ams.org/home.html)
SIMS Project
Library and Information Service of Western Australia (http://innopac.liswa.wa.gov.au/)
Sesame 2 (Monash University Library)* (http://www.monash.edu.au/library/wwwlib/)
University of Queensland (http://www.library.uq.edu.au/)
GIFT (Government Information Finder Technology Canada) (http://www.gc.ca/home.html)
ONE (OPAC Network in Europe) (http://www.bibsys.no/one.ta.html)
WebZ (http://tikal.dev.oclc.org:2000/html/webz_pswd.htm)
Zweb (Michigan State University) (http://zweb.cl.msu.edu/)
Substantial listings of Z39.50 projects are available at the following listing of online catalogs with ‘webbed’ interfaces - Z39.50 gateways
(http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/staff/morgan/alcuin/wwwed-catalogs-Z39.50.html)
WWW to Z39.50 Gateways (http://is.rice.edu/~riddle/webZ39.50.html)
Library of Congress Z39.50 Page
Navigation Aids
Virtual Pathfinder (http://www.lib.unb.ca/vp.html)
SIMON (System of Internet Mapping for Organised Navigation) (http://www.elec.qmw.ac.uk/simon/welcome.html)
Inquery (http://cobar.cs.umass.edu/inqueryhomepage.html)
Intelligent Archive (http://www.llnl.gov/liv_comp/ia.html)
DREAM (Document Retrieval Engine for Archiving Multi-lingual information) (http://www.iti.gov.sg/iti_RnD/infosheet/infomgmt/dream.html)
Harvest* (NISS description) (http://harvest.cs.colorado.edu/harvest/)
Weblib (http://selsvr.stx.com/~weblib/)
CNIDR: ISITE (http://cnidr.org/Software/isite.html)
Berkeley Finding Aid Project (http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingAids/)
ELSA (Electronic Library SGML Applications) (http://www.elsa.dmu.ac.uk/ELSA/elsa.html)
HyperLib (Hypertext Interfaces to Library Information Systems) (http://www.ua.ac.be/MAN/man.html)
RIDDLE (Rapid Information Display and Dissemination in a Library Environment) (http://www.cwi.nl/cwi/projects/riddle.html)
The SGML web page contains links to many other projects and provides technical details. (http://www.sil.org/sgml/sgml.html)
This page provides links to merely a selection of available search tools and subject guides, selected according to usefulness for academic research and teaching. A comprehensive bibliography of papers evaluating search tools cane found here. The links on this page represent only a sample of available search tools and the following sites provide more comprehensive listings.
Lund University—browsing and searching Internet resources (http://www.ub2.lu.se/nav_menu.html)
WWWorld of search engines
Meta indexes and information sources (Telstra) (http://www.telstra.com.au/meta/meta.html)
Search engines (Telstra) (http://www.telstra.com.au/meta/search.html)
Search Tools—Crawler/worm Types
World Wide Web Worm (http://wwww.cs.colorado.edu/wwww)
Webcrawler (NISS description) (http://webcrawler.com/)
Lycos (NISS description) (http://www.lycos.com/)
Infoseek (NISS description) (http://www.infoseek.com/)
Open Text Web Index (http://www.opentext.com:8080/omw.html)
Nlightn (http://www.nlightn.com/)
INKTOMI (http://inktomi.berkeley.edu/)
DejaNews (Usenet searching) (http://www.dejanews.com/)
Excite (http://www.excite.com/)
Archieplex (FTP files) (http://www.telstra.com.au/services/archieplex/archieplex.html)
ALIWEB (http://web.nexor.co.uk/public/aliweb/aliweb.html)
Alta Vista: Main Page (NISS description) (http://www.altavista.digital.com/)
Search Tools—Australian
Australian Internet Directories (Web, news and e-mail searches) (http://www.sofcom.com.au/WWW.AU/index.html)
Australian WWW Servers (http://www.csu.edu.au/links/ozweb.html)
Australian Directories (phone and e-mail addresses for Universities and NLA) (http://coolabah.itd.adelaide.edu.au/phone.html)
Aussie Index (Index of Australian web pages) (http://www.aussie.com.au/)
Little Aussie Web Wombat Australian Search Engine (http://www.intercom.com.au/wombat/)
Ozlists (Electronic discussion lists) (http://www.gu.edu.au/gint/ozlists/ozlists_home.html)
Index of Australian Indexes (http://www.moreinfo.com.au/ausindex/)
Search Tools—Integrated
MetaCrawler (http://metacrawler.cs.washington.edu:8080/index.html)
Multithreaded Query (NISS description)
SavvySearch (http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~dreiling/smartform.html)
IBM infoMarket Service (http://www.infomkt.ibm.com/)
Subject Catalogues
Yahoo (NISS description) (http://www.yahoo.com/)
Clearinghouse for Subject Orientated Internet Resource Guides (University of Michigan)(http://www.lib.umich.edu/chhome.html)
EINet Galaxy (http://www.einet.net/galaxy.html)
BUBL Subject Tree (http://www.bubl.bath.ac.uk/BUBL/Tree.html)
Internet Subject Guides (University of Alberta) (http://www.ualberta.ca/~slis/guides/guides.html)
Cyberstacks (Science and Technology) (http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/)
Indexes to Electronic Publications
Quloc Electronic Journal Index (http://www.gu.edu.au:80/alib/quloc/ejournal/ejournal_idx.html)
InterNIC Directory of Directories (http://www.internic.net/ds/dsdirofdirs.html)
New Jour (Electronic Journal and Newsletter Archive) (http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour/)
1995 ARL Directory of E-Journals, Newsletters and Academic Lists (gopher://arl.cni.org:70/11/scomm/edir/edir95)
Australian Electronic Journals (http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/ausejour.html)
WWW Virtual Library Electronic Journals (http://www.edoc.com/ejournal/)
Hyperjournal (http://econwpa.wustl.edu/~hyperjrn/contents.htm)
Literature and Information Resources
It is intended that the final report of the Integrated Document Access Project will include both an annotated bibliography and a literature review. In the short term this page will primarily point to relevant information sites and sources rather than identifying individual documents. Under each heading details of specific documents are provided first, then links or details of general resources, with information on electronic lists and newsgroups provided last. This section will be one of the last parts of this web site to be finalised.
Contents
Cataloguing Issues
Digital Libraries
Document Delivery
Electronic Publications
General
Integrated Document Access
Indexing/Metadata
Quality Controls
Search Systems
Search Tools—Evaluations
SGML Literature/Information Resources
Specific Projects
Systems
Z39.50
Cataloguing Issues
Discussion paper No. 86: ‘Mapping the Dublin core metadata elements to USMARC’
Available from: http://www.nlcbnc.ca/documents/libraries/cataloging/dublin1.txt
Digital Libraries
D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/)
Digital Libraries Web page (http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/II/diglib.htm)
Proceedings of Digital Libraries ’94 (http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/DL94/)
Digital Libraries ’95 (http://csdl.tamu.edu/DL95/)
Digital Libraries Electronic List (Diglib)
When subscribing to Diglib leave the subject field blank and in the text of your message type: subscribe DIGLIB firstname lastname.
Document Delivery
Cathro, Warwick S. 1995, The impact of NDIS in an open document supply environment, available from http://www.nla.gov.au/2/NDIS/illsummp.html.
OLC Document Delivery Task Force Report, National Interlending and Document Supply Summit Canberra, 18–19 May ’95, Electronic Document Delivery Home Page (includes electronic list subscription information).
Document Delivery Electronic List. When subscribing to Doclibs leave the subject field blank and type the following text: subscribe doclibs. Do not include your name!
Electronic Publications
Haddad, Peter & Jones, Maggie 1995, Electronic publishing: access, bibliographic and preservation issues, available at: http://www.adfa.oz.au/EPub/AvccNLA.html
AVCC Working Party on Electronic Publishing (http://www.adfa.oz.au/ EPub/summary.html)
General
Dempsey, Lorcan 1994, Network resource discovery: a European Library perspective, available at: http://www.ub2.lu.se/UB2proj/LIS_ collection/lorcan.html. Also published in Smith, Neil (ed) 1994, Libraries, networks and Europe: a European networking study London, British Library Research and Development Department.
SantaVicca, Edmund F. 1994, ‘The Internet as a Reference and Research Tool: a Model for Educators’ in Kinder, Robin (ed), Librarians on the Internet, Haworth Press, New York, pp. 225–236.
Internet Resources Newsletter (new resources of interest to the higher education community) (http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/irn.html).
Knowledge Models for Networked Library Services Bibliography (http://www.nbbi.nl/kms/kmslit.htm).
Hildreth, Charles R. 1995, ‘The GUI OPAC: Approach with Caution’, The Public Access Computer Systems Review 6, No. 5, available from http://info.lib.uh.edu/ pr/v6/n5/hild6n5.html.
Crawford, Walt 1995, ‘Identifying Small Solutions’, The Public Access Computer Systems Review 6, No. 5, available from http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v6/n5/craw6n5.html.
De Bra, Dr P.M.E. & Post, Dr R.D.J. 1995, Information retrieval in the world-wide web: making client-based searching feasible, available from http://www.win.tue.nl/win/cs/is/reinpost/www94/www94.html.
Desai, Dr Bipin C. 1995?, A system for seamless search of distributed information sources, available from http://www.cs.concordia.ca/w3-paper.html.
Iannella, Renato 1995, Internet resource discovery issues, available from http://www.dstc.edu.au/RDU/reports/QuestNet95.html.
Weibel, Stuart L. 1995, ‘The world wide web and emerging Internet resource discovery standards for scholarly literature’, Library Trends, 42 (4) Spring 1995, pp. 627–644.
Indexing/Metadata
General metadata information (http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/II/metadata.htm)
Indexing Page (Australian Society of Indexers) (http://godzilla.zeta.org.au/~aussi/inetindx.htm)
Quality Controls
ANU—Information Quality, Guidelines and Standards Home Page (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/QLTY/QltyHome.html)
Internet-based Information Quality Control (http://ukoln.bath.ac.uk/research/qual.html#gems)
Search Systems
Morton, David & Silcot, Sandra 1995, Systems for providing searchable access to collections of HTML documents, available from http://www.scu.edu.au/ausweb95/papers/indexing/morton.
Vanzl, Adrian 1995, Expanding Web functionality by incorporating external programs—a casestudy of a search system, available from http://www.scu.edu.au/ausweb95/papers/integrating/vanzyl/.
Search Tools—Evaluations
Leighton, H. Vernon (?), Performance of four World Wide Web (WWW) Index services: Infoseek, Lycos, Webcrawler and WWWWorm, available at http://www.winona.msus.edu/services-f/library-f/webind.htm.
Lu, J. 1995, Understanding WWW search tools, available at http://www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/search/.
Randall, N. 1995, Search engines: powering through the Internet, available at http://www.zdnet.com/~pccomp/features/internet/search/.
Winship, I. 1995, World wide web searching tools—an evaluation, available at http://www.bubl.bath.ac.uk/BUBL/IWinship.html.
A selection of Internet search tools (http://www.mtm.kuleuven.ac.be/Services/search.html)
UCB Library Internet Search Tool Details (http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Help/searchdetails.html)
SGML Literature and Information Resources
The SGML Web Page (http://www.sil.org/sgml/sgml.html)
Hawks, Carol Pitts 1995, ‘OhioLINK: Implementing Integrated Library Services Across Institutional Boundaries’, The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 6, No.2, 1995, available at http://www.anu.edu.au/caul/hawk6n2.htm.
Ianella, Renato 1995?, Internet resource discovery with BabyOIL, available from http://www.dstc.edu.au/RDU/reports/.
Kibbee, Jo 1994, ‘A Virtual Library for Librarians: JANET’s Bulletin Board for Libraries’ in Kinder, Robin (ed) Librarians on the Internet, Haworth Press, New York, pp. 99–107.
McMahon, Kenneth 1995, ‘BUBL’ Computers in Libraries, Vol. 15, No.1, January 1995, pp. 62–63.
Meulemans, Nils 1995?, LIRN (Library Information Referral and enquiry Network), available from http://www.scu.edu.au/ausweb95/papers/libraries/meulemans/
Storey, Tom 1994, ‘The Internet and OCLC: Broadening access to the World’s Information’, in Kinder, Robin (ed), Librarians on the Internet, Haworth Press, New York, pp. 375–385.
Winograd, Terry 1995, Stanford Digital Library Project: working paper, available from: http://www-diglib.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/WP/get/SIDL-WP-1995-0010.
Knowledge Models for Networked Library Services (http://www.nbbi.nl/kms/kmspage.htm)
MODELS: MOving to Distributed Environments for Library Services (http://ukoln.bath.ac.uk/models/intro.html)
•Nordic WAIS/World Wide Web Project (http://www.ub2.lu.se/W4.html)
ALCTS Taskforce (http://www.ub2.lu.se/W4.html)
Systems
Syslibs archive (http://library.adelaide.edu.au/m/syslibs/)
Syslibs Electronic List (send a general message asking to be put on the list)
Z39.50
Internet Searching with Z39.50 (http://pages.prodigy.com/ZUPN84A/z3950.htm)
People and Organisational Contacts
Organisations
CAUL Council of Australian University Librarians (http://www.anu.edu.au/caul/)
CNI Coalition for Networked Information (USA) (http://www.cni.org/CNI.homepage.html)
UKOLN UK Office for Library and Information Networking (http://ukoln.bath.ac.uk/)
CIIR Centre for Intelligent Information Retrieval (USA) (http://cobar.cs.umass.edu/info/ciirbiblo.html)
DSTC Distributed Systems Technology Centre (http://www.dstc.edu.au/)
CNIDR The Center for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval (http://cnidr.org/)
Research Libraries Group (USA) (http://www-rlg.stanford.edu/welcome.html)
CAUSE (association for managing and using information resources in higher education, USA) (http://cause-www.colorado.edu/)
CNRI Corporation for National Research Initiatives (http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/home.html)
NBBI Project Bureau for Information Management in the Netherlands (http://www.nbbi.nl/)
NISS National Information Services and Systems (UK) (http://www.niss.ac.uk/)
OCLC Online Computer Library Centre (USA) (http://www.oclc.org/oclc/)
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force (http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/home.html)
CITRI Collaborative Information Technology Research Institute (AUST) (http://www.citri.edu.au/)
NIR Working Group on Networked Information Retrieval (UK)
(http://nisp.ncl.ac.uk/lists-k-o/nir/)
IFLA International Federation of Library Associations (USA)
(http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/home.htm)
JISC Joint Information Systems Committee (UK) (http://www.niss.ac.uk/education/jisc.html)
PICA Dutch Centre for Library Automation (http://www.pica.nl/)
Lund University Electronic Library (http://www.ub2.lu.se/)
The Lund University electronic library is a comprehensive collection of a variety of information resources that was established in 1992. The web interface links gopher, WWW and WAIS search tools. Integration of print and electronic sources. Lund electronic library links a traditional library catalogue with electronic databases and Internet resources. Presumably it provides no integration of the electronic databases and the library catalogue.
At this stage of the IDA project, Lund is the project which provides the most comprehensive integration of print and electronic sources, even though separate searches of the individual media are still required. Information retrieval/resource discovery capabilities. A variety of search methods are required to access the different resources collected through the Lund electronic library but the resource discovery capabilities of the service are immense given the breadth of the collection. WAIS searching is by keywords and Internet search links are provided for browsing by type of resource, location and subject. Document delivery, access restrictions, authority, and user friendliness.
The Lund electronic library incorporates no document delivery functions, other than the provision of links and search mechanisms for full text information. Access restrictions are in place for electronic resources (commercial) and the codes are available. Much useful user friendly information about search tools and designing a search strategy is provided. Test-bed study indicators WAIS searching of multiple databases via the WWW very interesting feature for Australian test-bed study. Lund WAIS facility provides good coverage of material from Australian National University Internet resource guide every comprehensive and useful, could be a partial option of a project to produce similar guide considering applicability for Australian users.
World1/Ndis (National Document and Information Service) (http://www.nla.gov.au/2/NDIS/)
The National Library of Australia is developing World1 as a new online information service which will replace the existing Australian Bibliographic Network (ABN) and Ozline. World1 will provide a graphical interface and sophisticated search capabilities to a collection of national and international information services.
Integration of print and electronic sources.
World1 will carry a range of databases allowing the retrieval of both print and electronic sources. It will host ABN, the cooperative cataloging database maintained by the National Library of Australia for the use of librarians. ABN records include library holdings information. Other databases to be included are the Ozline 35 databases and Medline. Gateways will be provided to other as yet unidentified overseas databases. World1 will also include Internet connections and links in addition to maintaining a collection of Australian electronic publications. Information retrieval/resource discovery capabilities. Intended search features include: natural language searching, fuzzy matching, relevance ranking, relevance feedback and cross database searching. Phase 1 to be completed by August 1996 will provide a graphical search interface and a range of search tools. Phase 2 is intended to develop advanced searching capabilities.
Document delivery, Access Restrictions, Authority and User friendliness.
Document delivery will be an important feature of the World1 service. Uncover, a document delivery database will be carried on the World1 system. Phase 1 will include online document requesting, with document delivery features being enhanced in the final phase of the project to provide documents via Mime or FTP delivery. It is not yet clear how this document delivery function will work with the existing inter library loan function of ABN. Access to World1 is by subscription. As planned the service sounds extremely user friendly incorporating many design elements to allow user customisation, this will have to be judged when the system is fully operating.
Test-bed Study Indicators.
World1 is a large national project which promises many new and innovative services to Australians however, time will have to reveal how much can be realistically achieved. Search capabilities and interface may be worth follow up.
United States NSA/ARPA/NASA
Six digital library projects have been funded under the NSF/ARPA/NASA program in the United States. As these are all very new projects it is difficult to evaluate them individually as little information is available and the projects share very similar general characteristics with an individual focus. All projects tend towards the large scale with the total funding for the six projects being US$24.4 million. All projects are to be carried out over a significant period of time and most appear to involve industry partners/collaborators.
Alexandria Digital Library (http://alexandria.sdc.ucsb.edu/)
The focus of the Alexandria project is to create a digital library for spatially-indexed information ie maps, photographs, atlases and gazetteers. The first phase of the project involved creating a ‘rapid prototype’ system from existing off the shelf products. This prototype is available on the projects web site. The second phase of the project concentrates on trying to develop a GIS -like web interface.
The Informedia Project (http://fuzine.mt.cs.cmu.edu/im/informedia.html)
The focus of the Informedia project at Carnegie Mellon University is to establish a digital video library which will allow the retrieval and exploration of video archives of science and maths materials.
Illinois Digital Library Initiative Project (http://surya.grainger.uiuc.edu/dli/)
The focus of the Illinois project is on engineering and science journals and magazine, as well as a collection of linked databases and documents.
Stanford Digital Libraries Project (http://Mjosa.Stanford.EDU:80/diglib/)
The scope of the Stanford Digital Libraries project is the broadest, focusing on the development of technologies that can be used to create an integrated, universal digital library. The project intends to create a seamless interface over a range of protocols.
UC Berkeley Digital Library Project (http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu)
The Berkeley Digital Library Project is intended to create a digital library with a focus on environmental information. Forms based searching is supported for all aspects of the collection, presented in categories: aerial photos, dams, documents, photographs and access matrix. Search mechanisms allow a degree of customisation with tips on search techniques included along with viewing information attached to search results. Includes an experimental ‘Multivalent Document Image Browser’ for use with a Java-compliant browser.
University of Michigan Digital Libraries Project (http://www.sils.umich.edu/UMDL/HomePage.html)
The University of Michigan Digital Library focuses on developing a multimedia digital library.
OhioLink (http://www.cwru.edu/Ohiolink/ohiolink.html)
The Ohio Library and Information Network (OhioLINK) serves a consortium of 43 university and college libraries and the State Library of Ohio with integrated local and central catalogs, an online borrowing system, research databases, and document delivery services. A well established system commencing in 1992, 30 out of an intended final 43 library catalogs are available. OhioLINK provides access to print and electronic resources through the inclusion of library catalogs, online indexes containing records for both print and electronic, and Internet access.
Database records do not appear to be linked to journal holdings in the OhioLINK network, necessitating an additional search to locate periodicals. Although the system has its limits it is moving successfully towards a well integrated print and electronic sources.
Information retrieval/resource discovery capabilities.
Includes good information retrieval capabilities. Library catalog alone provides access to five million unique titles. Comprehensive selection of high quality databases and resources to search. Searching varies according to service required and no facilities for cross searching a selection of resources or multi searching databases appears to be available.
Document delivery, access restrictions, authority, user friendliness.
Provides an extensive document delivery service via access to the collections of all member institutions. Material can be ordered by users from their desktop and as yet no charges are incurred by individuals. Although the service would greatly enhance document delivery functions for users, its relationship with interlibrary loan requests for material outside the OhioLINK system is unclear. Presumably interlibrary loans remains the domain of individual member libraries requiring users to separately identify such materials and order documents.
Access to research databases is restricted to Ohiolink member users and the document delivery service is only provided among member institutions. The authority appears sound, catalog records submitted originating in member libraries cataloguing departments and well established databases linked to the catalog. User friendliness is good, the telnet interface is straightforward and online help is readily available. The library catalog is a well maintained clean database with duplicate records eradicated.
Test-bed Study Indicators.
Very useful system for providing large core of research material quickly and easily accessible. Provides additional benefit of encouraging cooperative acquisitions and collection development. To set up similar service in Australia likely to be impractical given large geographical distances making it difficult to get critical mass for delivery aspects to be effective but may be of some limited application on a state by state basis, however, in less populated states such as South Australia, would only be feasible if other types of institutions such as TAFE (Technical and Further Education) resource centres participated. World1 provides some similar functions but will initially be far more limited in the services it can include.
Harvest (http://harvest.cs.colorado.edu/harvest/)
Harvest is an integrated set of tools to gather, extract, organise, search, cache, and replicate relevant information across the Internet. It is claimed that with modest effort users can tailor Harvest to digest information in many different formats, and offer custom search services on the Internet. Moreover, it is claimed that Harvest makes very efficient use of network traffic, remote servers, and disk space.
Harvest is the first phase of a $2 million, multi-year project funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the National Science Foundation, Hughes Aircraft Co. and Sun Microsystems of Mountain View, California.
Integration of print and electronic sources.
Internet only (but will depend on the source data).
Information retrieval/resource discovery.
Everything appears to be customizable. However implementations investigated used a structured boolean keyword query format, gave options to direct the search, and returned a ranked list of results in HTML. How effective this is will depend on the thoroughness of the indexing.
Document delivery, access restrictions, authority, user friendliness.
Customizable. Implementations investigated were intuitive and well documented.
INQUERY (http://cobar.cs.umass.edu/inqueryhomepage.html)
INQUERY is the retrieval system used in the TIPSTER project in the Information Retrieval Laboratory of the Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts. The main processes in INQUERY are document indexing, query processing, query evaluation and relevance feedback.
Integration of print and electronic sources: INQUERY returns the results of a query on a database. The contents of the database will determine what is returned. Information retrieval/resource discovery: Queries can formulated as natural language (English sentences) and structured (Boolean). The user can modify queries by indicating ‘I would like to see more documents like this one’ this is called relevance feedback. Document delivery, access restrictions, authority, user friendliness.
Results of queries are returned as HTML documents. The content (and authority) of the document is determined by the format of the database under interrogation. The interface appears to be intuitive in operation. There are a number of public databases available with which to test drive the INQUERY system. Test-bed study indicators INQUERY is a retrieval system front end that can be applied to various databases. The use of relevance feedback is a significant feature of this software.
JEDDS (http://www.gu.edu.au/alib/iii/docdel/jeddshom.htm)
The JEDDS (Joint Electronic Document Delivery Software) project is a software development project aimed at the need for an increase in access to electronic information in Australia. The collaborative project involves the AV-CC, the NLA, the NLNZ and the Joint Information Systems Committee, Electronic Libraries Programme (UK)(e-lib). Aimed at the general community, the project builds on existing ARIEL software in its attempt to give library users greatly increased access to electronic information. The project will introduce MIME capability, and is unique in that the software will enable integration with national ILL protocol, while still having the ability to work independently of it. The project is in phase 1 of 3 phases.
ARIEL (http://www-rlg.stanford.edu/ariel.html)
ARIEL is a document transmission system initiated by the Research Libraries Group. ARIEL software enables the scanning and transmission of large documents through the Internet to other computers using ARIEL software. The process eliminates the disadvantages associated with faxing, such as photocopying and international call fees, and unlike faxing, ARIEL is able to send and receive documents simultaneously. The limitations surrounding ARIEL are related to its use of the net as its transmission vehicle; only those who have access to the Internet can use ARIEL. In addition, ARIEL is a dedicated system and can only transmit to other machines using ARIEL, which again, limits its user numbers. Despite these limitations, ARIEL is at present used globally on a significant scale. References: ‘Document Delivery Over the Internet’ in Online, Vol. 17, No. 2, March 1 1993.
TULIP (http://www.elsevier.nl/info/projects/tulip.htm)
The University Licensing Program is a collaborative research project involving Elseiver Science Publishing, and 9 USA Universities. The study will test different electronic document delivery methods in an attempt to define an ideal system for electronic distribution. The basic process of delivery of the requested document to the universities will be the same (scanning to distribution); however each university has differing technical procedures as to how the document is delivered to the end user.
The project will also concentrate on user studies also to compare the level of access of print journals to electronic. The journals used for this project are based in the area of material science and engineering. A major challenge for TULIP is associated with printing; it has been noticed that the transmission of large amounts of data over the Internet results in major printing problems for the end user in terms of page formatting, delivery of information and inter campus network systems (Steele 1995). It is not clear how the project deals with copyright issues which surround the conversion of print to electronic journals.
References: ‘The digital library: dos, don’ts and developments’, in The Electronic Library, Vol 13, No 5, October 1995.